This meeting, held on May 23, 2011, formally announced the release of the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care workshop summary, Digital Infrastructure for the Learning Health System: The Foundation for Continuous Improvement in Health and Health Care.

This meeting of the Value Incentives Innovation Collaborative, held on June 15, 2011, will focus on implementation of ACO regulations, measuring the success of value incentives, and engaging patients in value initiatives.

This meeting of the Value Incentives Innovation Collaborative will focus on implementation of ACO regulations, measuring the success of value incentives, and engaging patients in value initiatives, and was convened on June 15, 2011.

On July 7, 2011, the IOM Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care convened a conflict of interest multi-stakeholder working group in a cooperative effort to identify common elements and standardized approaches to satisfy conflict of interest disclosure requirements in health care and the biomedical sciences.

On July 25, 2011, the Clinical Effectiveness Research Innovation Collaborative met to discuss issues related to patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and included presentations and discussions of priorities of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, opportunities to build PCOR into clinical practice, and the role of PCOR in eliminating health disparities.

This meeting of the Best Practices Innovation Collaborative (BPIC) will focus on reviewing team-based care initiatives currently in play, identifying touchstone principles common across the health professions related to teamwork in healthcare delivery that enhance patient experience and outcomes, considering the principal gaps, challenges and opportunities for progress, and exploring collaborative projects and next steps among BPIC participants.

This meeting of the Digital Learning Collaborative will consider ongoing public and private efforts important to the learning health system, explore key issues for the digital health infrastructure and the learning processes it supports, identify ways to learn from the entire digital ecosystem, beyond traditional healthcare settings, and discuss opportunities and priorities for collaborative initiatives. Confirmed speakers include: Hunt Blair, State of Vermont Rich Elmore, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Jamie Ferguson, Kaiser Permanente Nancy Grady, Science Applications International Corporation Mohit Kaushal, West Wireless Jonathan Javitt, Telcare Rachel Nelson, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia Speaker presentations are now available.